[E. Pluribus Unum]

One of the guys I got my chemistry degree with was involved in a project where they put schizophrenics on dialysis and it would completely eliminate their symptoms.

His job was to analyze the dialysate to determine what compound was causing the schizophrenia.

Haven’t seen him in a few decades, so I have no idea how it turned out.

[Boogieman]

“But behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s, psychiatrist Dr Yuri Nikolayev was treating patients at a Moscow sanatorium with a radical form of fasting...”

Oh is that what they are calling Soviet starvation of their political prisoners now??

[American Infidel]

Multi-day fasting and daily intermittent fasting combined with eliminating rice, bread, pasta, soda,and added sugar have been a game-changer for me personally over the last 6 years.

More energy, better blood-work and overall better health. I have not had so much as a sniffle since 2015, which - I will acknowledge - may be correlation as opposed to causation since I never really got sick much anyway.

That being said, I will usually cheat with a bowl of ice cream on Saturdays as my one indulgence. I also fast the day before and the day after Thanksgiving and Christmas so I can enjoy those days without restrictions. It's all about moderation. Your mileage may vary, but I would recommend trying OMAD (one meal a day) at least a few days a week.

[Nifster]

Get ready. Food shortages on the horizon…..it’s for your own good

[TalBlack]

After one and a half days I start hallucinating Italian bread.

[BlueStateRightist]

I do 16:8 intermittent fasting 3-5 days per week, coupled with a low carbohydrate (<50 g) diet daily. Finally, I cap my total daily calorie intake to about 2,300 with 6 days/week rigorous exercise. My BMI is 23. Never have I felt healthier.

[GaltAdonis]

. . . "INTERMITTENT FASTING MAY HOLD THE KEY TO BETTER MENTAL HEALTH" . . .

" . . . Consuming nothing but at least a liter of water a day for 25 to 30 days..." . . .

.

Well - you gotta admit that anyone who submits to this does indeed
have serious mental health issues which need to be addressed...

[bray]

Sounds like more cult junk science.

[Buttons12]

Well sure that’s fine for Russians. My gran could’ve done it, if you threw in a stone.
But what about the rest of us?

[Freedom4US]

Nice informative article.

This “hasn’t had breakfast in 40 years” statement is misleading. Skipping a morning meal is what’s happening here. One can eat Breakfast any time of day - that’s in fact what it means. Break Fast.

Don’t need to scare otherwise curious people - they think skipping breakfast means no Bacon and Eggs. Intermittent fasting is always enthusiastically described by everyone who has given it a fair shake, near as I can tell.

And it doesn’t cost anything.

[vpintheak]

Could this explain what is happening in the west? As we overflow with food and easy living; mental illness anxiety and depression rage.
Maybe we could go for some lean times to sharpen our wit and health?

[Bonemaker]

If you get to the point during fasting that you are no longer hungry then you know you are about to croak. I last from dinner until break-fast.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Great article (and well researched with citations, too). Thanks for posting.

I had my colonoscopy on Monday. Went from Sunday 1 pm to Monday 3 pm without eating (except for the gallon of “prep”). So I hit 26 hours with no problems. I was surprised that I didn’t feel more hungry at the end of the 26 hours.

Maybe it’s time to try this on a more frequent and rigorous basis to see what results I can achieve.

[logi_cal869]

Thanks for posting this.

I’m citing this article as a reference in my book once I stop laughing.

[logi_cal869]

For the record, here is the principal subject of the article, Dr. Mark Mattson:

In contrast, this was Donald Trump at age 65 in 2011:

Not exactly the picture of health one would imagine of a man who not only failed to achieve any significant breakthroughs in Alzheimer's research before retiring - to state nothing that the solution is literally staring him in the face - but a man who "hasn’t had breakfast in 40 years and does aerobic exercise before breaking his 18-hour fast to optimize the health benefits."

He looks like hell warmed over for being only 65 while preaching the health benefits of all his 'discoveries' as a sidebar to his day job...a career which can only be measured by degrees of failure rather than successes.

If he wasn't so myopic, he might have retired with a true breakthrough on human health, and maybe the author of the piece below could actually have cited some tangible achievements in his long career. It's sad, really.

Mattson, Expert on Brain Aging, Science of Fasting, Retires

[hope_dies_last]

Ping!

[Graybeard58]

About 10 years ago when I found out I was diabetic and I was told among other things that I should give up sweets, I thought, “no problem, I don’t eat much sugary things anyway.”

Be told to give up something and you may find out just how much you crave it. I always ate a big amount of bread with my food too, that particular item was every bit as hard to give up as sugar for me.